Lookit the Random Crap I Found!

mikehudack:

felixsalmon:

A history of bank megamergers. I remember nearly all of these pretty well, but must admit I don’t recall HF Ahmanson.

Incredible.

Did you know that the game Monopoly was originally designed to demonstrate how an unregulated pure capitalist economy would eventually degenerate into one person with all the money and everyone else bankrupt?  For some reason I remembered that when I saw this chart.